I have news today! First up some clearer photos of the finished silver plated versions of the pins.
Don't they look so good! And you can see the glitter and pearl clearly now. (I actually switched manufacturers for this project and they offered me the option of just pearl or swirl pearl. My old manu stopped doing swirl pearl and it is my preferred pearl look, so was delighted when they said they did it!) You may noticed the outline metal is a little thicker than on the original illustrations, this is just the nature of the making digital designs into smaller tangible objects sometimes. I'm very happy with them overall though.
Now the silver plated ones have been checked and will be sent me to hopefully in the next couple of days.
Which leads me onto the gold plated pins and their problems :(
(Anyone who has been around for pins I've made before will remember the chaos of the Windows of Wonder gold plated pins, apparently I am cursed with gold plated pins regardless of who I use haha.) My manu alerted me to an issue where the pins have severely oxidised between receiving them and checking them. (They send them to a different place to be plated.) They are not happy about it and it has become a big issue with lots of people's orders effected. They are going to try to get them re-plated properly (they suspect the place they send them has been cutting corners due to the cost of gold going up) but this could damage the pins if the plating factory mess up, so there is a chance the pins will need re-doing from scratch. This may cause a bit of a delay. Even with this delay I hope that we will still be able to ship in August as planned.
Not the update I wanted to give you all today but such is the nature of manufacturing at the moment.
